SANDRINE DEUMIER | SOFT BUTTERFLYJOHANNES HELDÉN | RED SHIFT

Sandrine Deumier

Johannes Heldén

January 1, 2018 – April 30, 2018

THE WORK

SANDRINE DEUMIERsoft butterfly: "Software to make your life better."

An androgynous, feminine character wakes up in a neutral, translucent space tinged with pink hues. Formed by a moldable and reconfigurable material, this extremely tactile space is a place where anything is possible. The character and others like her adapts to her emotional states and elements of her surroundings. However, this ability to return from infinity to her reconfigurable reality will eventually present its limits.

JOHANNES HELDÉNRed Shift

Johannes Heldén is a visual artist, poet and musician. His work deals with artificial intelligence, ecology, poetry, science fiction, sentience and interactive narrative structures. He has published twelve books, most recently Astroecology (2016) which was published simultaneously in three languages and made into an interdisciplinary performance at the The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and a digital artwork published by Bonniers Konsthall.

THE ARTISTS

With her dual philosophical and artistic training, Sandrine Deumier constructed a multifaceted poetry focused on the issue of technological change and the performative place of poetry conceived through new technologies. Using material from the word as image and the image as a word vector, she also works at the junction of video and sound poetry considering them as sensitive devices to express a form of unconscious material itself. The process of writing and the mobile material of the image function as underlying meanings of reflux which refer to the real flickering and to their reality transfers via unconscious thought structures. Her work consists mainly of texts, digital poetry, multimedia installations and audiovisual performances in collaboration with composers.

Johannes Heldén was the recipient of the Åke Andrén Art Prize in 2015 and the Evolution project won the inaugural N. Katherine Hayles prize in 2014. He has published four music albums, most recently System (Irrlicht), and seven digital online works of poetry and visual art. His work has recently been shown at ISEA in Vancouver, Broken Dimanche in Berlin, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Inspace in Edinburgh, Moderna Museet Stockholm, UB Center for the Arts Buffalo, The Fifth Moscow Biennale, The Media Archaelogy Lab/University of Colorado, Volt in Bergen, ICIDS Istanbul, NIMK in Amsterdam, Dome of Visions in Copenhagen, UKS in Oslo among others. He is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Hawthornden Castle et al.